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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life.

Happy Tuesday, my friends.

It is so good to get to be alive.

I'm so grateful that you pressed play today and invited me into your day.

Good morning.

Welcome in.

Happy Tuesday.

Here we go. The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is changing your categories.

It's going to make sense in a minute. Let me explain. When you are dealing with situations,

you have two categories in your mind. This is good or this is bad? Everything you encounter is subconsciously

placed in one of these two categories. Either this is good, I like it, this feels good, I'm happy

about it, or this is bad. I don't like it.

I'm worried about it or stressed about it.

And for my sisters who tend to be a bit of a control freak,

I bet anything you don't fully know, see, understand, or have complete control of

tends to promptly be put in the this is bad category

as well. We go through our whole lives sorting our experiences in this way. And as we're coming to

the end of this month of life, we typically compile the experience into a

packaged deal and label the whole month, good or bad. Was this month a good month? Or was it a bad month?

For most of us using this natural sorting system, the month gets

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